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pin-up
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from pin (v.) + up (adv.). From 1940, in reference to pictures of "winsome young ladies in daring undress" ("Life," May 6, 1940) such as soldiers pinned up on their dugout walls, etc. The thing itself is older than the name. The noun in this sense ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model [syn: cover girl , lovely ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A pin-up was tacked to the wall with drawing pins, whereas a reproduction print was carefully framed and positioned. ▪ He kept no pin-up on his locker, he was never seen writing a letter of any sort, let alone a love-missive. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pin-up or pin-up girl is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-Up or pinup(s) may also refer to: Pin Ups , a 1973 album by David Bowie Pinups (Human Drama album) Pinups Magazine , a triannual artist's publication ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall. 2 The person so depicted. 3 (context figuratively English) figurehead, ...
Usage examples of pin-up.
He was doing very nicely in this heavily populated area, with its regular weddings and a full quota of girls wishful to be photographed as potential pin-up dollies somewhat saucier than the swimsuit beauties of the war.
Cocking an eye at his earnest phiz, which was passable, but no pin-up, I would have said that she was overpricing him.
To show off her pin-up charms to all the other boys of the steenth engineer corps!
So pretty that she was the pin-up girl for many in Store Street Garda station where she was based.
Wires, pipes and dials, the arteries of every boat, filled most of the space, but here and there a full-breasted pin-up or some newly-darned seaboot stockings showed that men lived here, too.
Grandmother saw their bunkies before they could hide their pin-up pictures.
The arguable connexions between pin-ups and pornography and sex and violence: just to clear them up, while Keith is at hand.
There were bright pin-up calendars, promising, after the mild though windy winter, torrid abandon renewed, golden flesh, the heartbreaking wagging cruppers of the bikinied young over the golden beaches.
Which wouldn't have fitted in with my plans at all, she though physically in the pin-up class, being as mushy a character as ever broke biscuit, convinced that the stars are God's daisy chain and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born.
He crossed his legs like a Forties pin-up and dangled his Roman sandal.
The graffiti is written in black magic-marker on yellow cards, to which curious pin-ups are attached.